To find out, the easiest way is to pop it up and look for the bios chip,
It's either soldered or "socketed" on
Socketed:
http://www.flashbios.org/catalog/images/plccsocket.jpg
Soldered:
http://www.ozflash.com.au/images/plcc_c.jpg
My two cents.
On 3/2/07, Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Geode is the CPU/SoC series used in the system. Originally manufactured
> > by National Semiconductors and/or Cyrix, AMD bought the technology and
> > improved it. It's not exactly an "easy" CPU/chipset, but it has been
> > supported by LinuxBIOS since quite some time.
>> Okay, thanks.
>> > Is the bios chip of that board socketed or soldered on?
>> I don't know what "socketed or soldered on" means.
> Should it be the case that at lest one of these is true, or could it be
> that none holds ?
>> And, is there a program/command I could run to answer your question ?
> Or perhaps the BIOS itself can answerThis ?
>> Thanks,
> Sébastien.
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